"Leading the A.N.S. chorus on a
heart-warming and systematic voyage of discovery through the music
of the 15th century, János Bali now follows his exhaustive research
of Ockeghem and Obrecht by clearing the accumulated dust of centuries
from the works of Agricola in a single stroke. It is no exaggeration
to say that, knowing now who Agricola was (and even though I heard
only the second of Bali's two Agricola concerts), I have a clear
idea where the composer can be placed among his contemporaries"

"Bali's direction has the different parts, each
poised to tense or relax at his command, moving alongside one another as he by turns
brings them up, holds them aloft and takes them back down, and such is the delight
in the details that it would be easy to lose sight of the whole."

10 October 1999, 20:30 Budapest, Egyetemi templomPart of the Second Dutch-Hungarian Early
Music Festival

Sponsors of the Dutch-Hungarian Early Music Festival were
ING Barings, the Royal Dutch Embassy, the Cultural Committee of the General
Assembly of Budapest, the National Cultural Foundation, Taverna Hotel, KLM,
Druk-ker nyomda, E-Copy Kft, VNU Budapest, Magyar Hírlap
The concert was broadcasted by the Hungarian Radio.

"Bali, now internationally regarded
as a specialist in the interpretation of Obrecht, has given a concert
which was a magnificent experience for those present. We can only hope
that with this, the standard has been set for the next festival."